Peasoup in the city

Watched it roll in at 1645 – Hunters Hill way

I think the fog is awesome, drove past Duntroon at 5pm yesterday to see a thick layer of fog. Around the back of Black Mountain the fog looked like the fields were water… Even coming home at 4pm today in the same spot the fog was returning…

Driving home at 11pm last night visability was shyte, and still is at the moment.. I can’t even see the park across the street.

BLISS I SAY !

“It’s baaaack….”

Current visibility in Lyneham: Bugger-all?(20m max).

typical canberra winter… nothing unusual.

*Gungahlin* of course. ‘Though there could be Mongols hiding out there in the fog, you never know…

Well, up here in Gengahlin, it’s just as pea soupy again this evening. 5:51pm and I can’t see the corner of my street, 1 house away!

As cold and depressing the winters in Canberra can sometimes be, occasionally you get to witness eerie and breathtaking scenery like last night. I love the mornings when the sun is shining, not a cloud in the sky,it is about minus 5 degrees, everything is frosty white and cruchy ubder your feet. Nothing can top the morning I opened my loungeroom curtains about 7 years ago and One Tree Hill in Gungahalin was covered top to bottom in snow. Gotta love this town!!!!!

Yeah, it was my 50th birthday as well.

these fogs lately have been unusual. normally, I’m above the fog in the sun, looking down onto it, but in recent weeks, these all-day fogs cover my place as well.

Just went for a twisty-quest walk (failed, they were out, got the ZigZags… Fail) and it’s still foggy and rather cold. You can see the sun’s position now, but it’s still very dull.

lobster said :

And yet, some people STILL won’t turn their lights on for the drive to work this morning!

I was waiting for zombies to attack me last night in the fog…
They missed their opportunity.

zombies don’t attack you, the fog does.

BenMac, no, I do not ride on roads… Browse RA postings on cyclists as to why.
A busted spoke is not worth fixing on the road anyways.

And yet, some people STILL won’t turn their lights on for the drive to work this morning!

I was waiting for zombies to attack me last night in the fog…
They missed their opportunity.

Despite pinging another spoke and getting a huge puncture

Danman, were you the cyclist fixing his bike at the top of the GDE-Barton Hwy overpass?

caf said :

…or sit atop a toilet seat made out of gold:

I don’t think a toilet seat made out of gold is appropriate in a Canberra Winter.

Eeek!

if you can afford a gold toilet seat, you can probably afford some way to warm it.

…or sit atop a toilet seat made out of gold:

I don’t think a toilet seat made out of gold is appropriate in a Canberra Winter. Eeek!

Awesome. To me, the quintessential Canberra scene involves stepping out of the pub after a few ales on a weeknight into a fog drenched civic bus interchange.

That image brings back fond memories of emerging from the Phoenix after an early week session. Back then of course the air inside looked about the same as that outside. Love it.

Driving from Goulburn in this weather is also nasty.
visibility can be down to just over one reflective strip ahead.

Jivrashia said :

…telescopic tripods for such chanced occasions (telescopic allows you to shorten it…

Or, if you don’t sleep in a bed of pure silk, drive a fur-covered plane, or sit atop a toilet seat made out of gold:
Attach a screw suited to the base of your camera to a length of string which will reach the ground (plus a few feet), stand on part of the string, and stabilise it with your feet.
Cheap, nasty, and slightly less effective, but vastly less expensive and cumbersome than a telescoping tripods.

It will also get into places where professionals with tripods are forbidden.

Took my point and shoot on the ride this morning…Despite pinging another spoke and getting a huge puncture (Saved by the virtue that I have slime installed in my tubes) it was still quite spectacular…My forward facing LED flashy was cutting a swathe through the dark and fog up teh end of Mirrebi. If I could find my usb cable for my camera (smaller on the camera end than the regular plug – tres annoying when you do no thave a sdhc card reader – ill send some to JB when I get home…Definetly doing early AM pictures this Saturday – with a car, zippo pocket warmers, thermos DSLR camera AND tripod….

P+S just can not cut the mustard for my likes.

Visibilty was down to about 30-40mtrs along belconnen way at around 9.30pm as well. It was very weird not being able to see that foot bridge from aranda – bruce until i was almost under it

jb

Best to carry around a telescopic tripods for such chanced occasions (telescopic allows you to shorten it and easily carry it in your backpack).
Unless, of course, you can offer to become a tripod…

Jones said :

Good stuff,
It looks great. We need more fog.
I was going to go for a run last night but got caught up in housework.
Might head up one of the mountains tonight and see how it looks from there.

booroomba rocks in the morning with fog in the valley looking towards canberra is amazing. makes you think that it is the sea rolling in.

Good stuff,
It looks great. We need more fog.
I was going to go for a run last night but got caught up in housework.
Might head up one of the mountains tonight and see how it looks from there.

It’s funny stuff. HQ JOC was blotted out by late evening, and it takes a fair bit to blot out their stupid sodium lights. And my district was soaked this morning, like it’d been raining.

From up in the unipub we watched it roll in, and out, and in again. Huge waves of weird pretty wonderland.

Ain’t nature grand.

I stepped outside into the street at about 9pm. It felt like it could have been 4am – it was so still, so wonderfully quiet, and I could feel the droplets of fog on my face. It was magical, almost like time had stopped.

After 11pm it left the Parliamentary triangle and headed north. I found it the thickest along Gungahlin Drive between Mitchell and Palmerston at about 1230am. No more than 30m visability.

Weird pretty wonderland of altered light, yeah 🙂

Woolley St looked just like this at 8.00 tonight – very pretty. From Dickson to just over C’wealth Av Bridge it was the same, but from that point, through Parkes and along Bowen/Wentworth it was clear sailing. I couldn’t fathom that.

I was really enjoying something similar tonight, JB. It feels so amazing. You sort of think, ‘Surely this shouldn’t look so pretty,’ but it just does.